Mathias jolly



(No Model.) 2SheetsSheet 1. M. JOLLY.

OIL CAN.

No. 446,061. I Patented Jan. 20,1891.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. M. JOLLY.

OIL CAN.

No. 445,061. I Patented Jan. 20, 1891.

012M146 @jM j QwwBwi UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MATHIAS JOLLY, OF TROY, NEYV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MYRTIE E. HART, OF SAME PLACE.

OIL-CAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 45,061, dated January 20, 1891.

Application filed May 22, 1890. Serial No.35Z,787- (No model.)

To all 'uxiwm/ it may concern:

Be it known that I, HATHIAS JOLLY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, count-y of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil-Cans, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to such improvements; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a view in side elevation of my improved oil-can. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken centrallyof the pump and reservoir on the broken line 2 2 in'Fig.1. Figs. 3 and 4'. are similar sections of a part of the device, showing modified forms of nozzleconnections. Fig.5 is a central longitudinal vertical section of the nozzle.

A is the can proper, which is provided interiorly with a pump -barrel A, extending from the bottom of the can, or a point near the bottom, to the top.

A is the piston-rod, which is provided at its lower end with the valved piston A. and at its upper end with an operating-handle A. The barrel is provided at its lower end with the inlet-openings A and leads through open- A in the upper end of the can into the reservoir A secured to the upper end of the can. The upper wall of the reservoir is provided with an opening A through which the rod A projects after passing through the reservoir from the barrel. The reservoir is provided with a tube B,hinged thereon,and preferably provided with a contracted discharge-orifice B. The connecting -hinge is of that class known asa hook-and-eye hinge. Thehook consists of a tube 13*, open at both ends and having one end soldered or otherwise secured in a lateral opening in one side of the reservoir, so that the other end projects exteriorly from the reservoir. The eye also consists of a tube B open at both ends and adapted to receive and fit the hook-tube B The eye tube is soldered or otherwise secured'in alat eral opening in the nozzle near its larger end, having been first slid onto the projecting end of the hook-tube, whichislong enough to pass entirely through the eye tube and project therefroi'n. The tubes are secured together by expanding the projecting end B" before the eye-tube is secured in the nozzle. The expanded end prevents the eye-tube from slipping off the other tube, and a boss 13 forms a bearing for the exterior end of the eye-tube to prevent the latter tube from slipping onto the hook-tube far enough to engage with the wall of the reservoir. I am thus able to produce a comparatively tight tubular hingejoint, which affords apassage-way Bfrom the reservoir to the nozzle and permits a revoluble or swinging movement of the nozzle in a vertical plane through the are represented by the dotted curved line B in Fig. 1. This upward movement of the nozzle is immediately over the receiving-vessel and has the effect to preventdripping or spilling outside of such vessel.

\Vhen itis desired to fill a lamp orother rcceptacle from the can,the nozzle being swung from the position shown by the solid lines to that shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 1, I place the receptacle under the nozzle and operate the pump until the desired amount of oil is obtained,whereupon the pump is stopped and the nozzle swung up to the level of the oil in the reservoir or back to the position shown by the solid lines. The flow can be stopped almost instantly by swinging up the discharge end of the nozzle,which can be done by raising the lamp being filled, and with it pushing up the nozzle, during which operation the lamp receives the drip. The pumpbarrel is placed near the periphery of the cantop, so that the nozzle can be made to extend sufliciently far to fill a lamp without tipping the can, and without being made so long as to extend outside of said periphery when turned back over the same. The nozzle is provided with a small aperture B formed at or near its lowest point, through which any oil in the reservoir above the outlet 13 will run out and down through the orifice B usually provided in large cans having a concave top, partly indicated by the dotted lines 13 in Fig. 1,

when the nozzle is swung back over the can to the position shown by the solid lines. When the nozzle is swung over to one side of the can to the position shown by the dotted lines, the aperture B is on top and no oil flows from it, or if it doesitwill follow the nozzle and unite ith the stream being discharged from the nozzle-orifice B. A small aperture A is also formed in the pump-barrelnearits upper end for the purpose of allowing the oil in the reservoir below the passage-Way B to escape back into the can when the pump is at rest, the amount escaping therefrom when the pump is in use being insignificant.

I am thus able to provide a convenientlyoperated lampfilling can in which the oil is con fined within the main receptacle only when the discharge mechanism is not in use, rendering the can comparatively safe against an accidental discharge of oil, and when the noz zle is swung back over the can all leakage from the hinge-joint or from the nozzle will run back into the can, and there will be no laterally-projecting parts to be accidentally bent or broken.

The boss B may be formed on the hook by soldering onto the hook-tube a sleeve 0, as shown in Fig. 3, wherein the hook is shown attached to the nozzle and the eye to the res ervoir. The eye-tube may have for a hearing at both ends a sleeve soldered onto the hooktube, as shown in Fig. 4:, the sleeve 0 being soldered to the hook-tube and performing the function of the expanded edge B.

When desired, the reservoir maybe simply an extension ofthe pump-barrel.

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In an oil-can, the combination, with the main receptacle, a pump-barrel projecting exteriorly above the same, and a pump piston and rod projecting above the barrel, of a nozzle and a tubular hook-and-eye hinge laterally connecting the nozzle with the barrel, said barrel being located near the outside of the can and the nozzle rotatable in a vertical plane,'whereby it is adapted to' be raised by a lamp or other article, which in the meantime receives the drip, substantially as described.

2. In an oil-can, the combination, with the main receptacle having a concave apertured top, and the pump-barrel, of a nozzle having an escape-opening B below the outlet B, and a horizontal tubular hinge-connection between such nozzle and barrel, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 19th day of May, 1890.

MATHIAS JOLLY.

Vitnesses:

FRANK O. CURTIS, CHAS. L. ALDEN. 

